Chapter 109 The Real Daughter of the Marquisate
Chen Jingyan set a date of three months, waiting for Mai Dong to learn the rules and regulations from Li Yuan in the Li family, and then sent someone to invite Mai Dong back to the Marquis' Mansion.
If I bring Ophiopogon back now, I'm afraid the old lady will be so angry that she will die if she sees it.
After setting a time, Chen Jingyan was about to set off back to Kyoto.
Mai Dong, Li Yuan and the rest of the Li family stood outside the door, watching Chen Jingyan's carriage leave.
After Chen Jingyan's carriage disappeared, Mai Dong turned around, took off the hairpin on her head, and stuffed it into the clothes in her arms.
Li Yuan watched Mai Dong's series of actions.
"Ahem, ahem, I'm still here, please move aside a bit."
"But we agreed that you would follow my example and learn the rules. You promised my third cousin. No matter what, you still have to call me cousin and show me some respect from now on."
Maidong looked at Li Yuan.
The corners of his mouth curled up.
"You can learn those broken rules if you want, but I won't learn them."
After saying that, Mai Dong walked directly towards the outside of the Li family. Not far away, three young men were squatting. They were dressed neatly and were handsome, but...
"How's it going, Maizi? How much money did you make this time? Can we go out to eat together?"
"Eat, eat, eat, all I do is eat. I haven't been home these few days. What's wrong with my mother? She must have started swearing at me again because she can't find me."
The mother Maidong mentioned was an old beggar who was blind and had a bad temper. The reason she adopted Maidong was that she hoped someone would collect her body when she died.
Her adoptive mother didn't love her, but Maidong remembered the warmth her adoptive mother gave her during the cold winter.
Even now, if her adoptive mother beats and scolds her, as long as she has something to eat and drink, she will think of her old mother who is unable to move at home.
"Don't worry, Sister Maizi. We brothers are taking good care of Aunt Li. She won't have to worry about food and drink."
Maidong glanced at the three of them.
"Stealing again? Be careful next time and don't get caught."
"Wang Dawei, were you bitten by a dog again?" Mai Dong asked when he saw that Wang Dawei's legs were not working well.
Wang Dawei said with a chuckle, "It didn't bite me. I ran fast, but my foot twisted when I was climbing over the wall."
Maidong took out the hairpin in his hand.
"Come with me and return the money..."
When this Chen Jingyan, called Marquis of Zhenbei, bought her a hairpin, she clearly remembered that the hairpin cost fifty taels.
She went to the jewelry store now and returned the hairpin.
What use is a hairpin? It's not as practical as money.
Money can buy wine and eat meat...
"Sister Maizi, leave this to us. We will definitely handle it. You just stand outside and don't have to go anywhere."
Maidong was standing outside the jewelry shop, and Wang Dawei and the other three went straight into the jewelry shop.
"Boss, come on, we have something to ask you, let's talk."
Wang Dawei and his men used both threats and intimidation to get the shopkeeper to give them the money.
The three of them walked out arm in arm, laughing and giggling. Then a man came out from behind the scenes. That man was none other than Gu Heng who came to Jiangcheng.
The fact that they were able to find Ophiopogon japonicus, the hidden gem of the Chen family of the Marquisate, so quickly was due to Gu Heng's secret help.
"Second Master, I just bought a hairpin from the Marquis, but now I want to return it and only want the money."
"Let her be. The Marquis gave the money, didn't he? Anyway, the shop didn't lose any money, it's just that the things were taken away and borrowed a few times."
Gu Heng stood at the door, looking at Mai Dong with the three men, and then frowned.
The daughter of a marquis's family shouldn't be like this.
He went to Li's house that night.
Knowing that Gu Heng had arrived, Li Yuan could no longer sit still and hurried to the front yard. Seeing how anxious she was, Li Yuan's mother, Mother Li, hurriedly called out to her:
"Yuanyuan, remember what your mother told you. Your aunt is very anxious. Your cousin is already in his twenties and he still won't ask for marriage."
"Mom, didn't I tell you that I don't like my cousin? He's very outstanding, and my aunt's family is rich, but I just don't like him. Are you going to kidnap me?"
Li Yuan said this and ran out.
Li Yuan's father was her grandfather's second son. The eldest wife had both a son and a daughter, but they were older and therefore did not match the age of Chen Sanlang of the Marquis's Mansion. That was why they chose Li Yuan, the daughter of the second son.
However, Li Yuan failed to catch the eye of Marquis Chen Jingyan.
But she fell in love with Gu Heng, the adopted son of the Marquis's Mansion.
To put it nicely, he is an adopted son, but his status is that of a marquis. What’s the difference between him and that steward?
After weighing the pros and cons, the Li family still felt that it would be most appropriate for Li Yuan to marry into their sister's family.
They are sisters, have a good relationship, and their family backgrounds are not much different. They also have business dealings. Li Yuan's parents want Li Yuan to marry her cousin from her aunt's family.
"This child is getting harder to manage as he grows older. Before he went to the Marquis' Mansion, he was still obedient to me, but now that he's back from that trip, why is he so obsessed with that Gu Heng?"
Mother Li sighed in worry.
Father Li then said, "I'm afraid we can't make the decision on this matter. If my cousin says that Yuanyuan doesn't marry Chen Sanlang or marries Gu Heng, can our family influence it?"
Most of the Chen family's businesses are in Kyoto, but they also have quite a few in Jiangcheng.
But why didn’t Gu Heng take care of these industries?
It can be seen that this Marquis's Mansion only raised Gu Heng, and as for the family property of the Marquis's Mansion, it was not Gu Heng's turn.
In this case, no matter how good a person Gu Heng is, he is just a doctor. He can help people, but how can he make money?
Gu Heng had just arrived in Jiangcheng and had not yet found a place to stay, so he temporarily stayed at the Li family.
The people in the Li family knew something about Gu Heng.
I just think that he is a good person, but he comes from a poor family and has no family background. If he marries into the Li family, it would be like marrying above his station.
If Gu Heng was a scholar, it would not be impossible for the Li family to marry him with a huge dowry. At least there would be hope. But this Gu Heng was just a small doctor.
Even if he worked hard all his life, he could never catch up with the Li family.
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